What may be more impressive than the total number of units sold is just how quickly the game has sold. Pokemon HGSS may have sold 3.84 million copies in Japan since September, but it sold 4.62 million copies outside of Japan - a number that is all the more astounding when you realize that there were only a few weeks at best between the North American and European launches (March 17 and March 26, respectively) and the close of Nintendo's fiscal year at the end of the month.

Even during the meager GameCube years, where Nintendo found itself in third place worldwide, Pokemon was one of the company's cash-cow franchises keeping Shigeru Miyamoto swimming in dough. Now, with the success of the Wii, Nintendo also has quite a few pillars other than Pokemon keeping its bank accounts full. The company named some of its other million-plus sellers during 2009:

On the Wii, Nintendo's major titles - Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit Plus and New Super Mario Bros. Wii - all sold more than 10 million copies in North America and Europe, with respective worldwide totals of 16.14 million, 12.65 million, and 14.7 million copies sold. All three of those, however, are outshone by Wii Sports, which now has a staggering estimated 63.46 million copies in circulation.

Not surprising...these are remakes of, arguably, the best games of the series. I have 3 copies personally; unopened US Silver, JP Silver and, US Gold. The surprising thing though, is that I am not a virgin. I'm just a freakin' dork...now to check serebii to see if the new starters have been revealed yet

*ring ring*"Yeah, this is Joey, you know my Ratatta? Its the best Ratatta, its like in the top percentage of Ratatta, its better than all Ratatta! If you want me to stop bugging you, buy Heartgold/Soulsilver!"*click*

Wow, i had no idea that 2 beautiful Feature packed remakes of two excellent games in a fun series would sell so well!

am i doing surprised right?

and my reaction to finding out i am not the only person who loved the Astoundingly fun game Mario & Luigi:BiS, playing as Bowser was a ton of funPHA+PGltZyBzcmM9Imh0dHA6Ly9pNDMudGlueXBpYy5jb20vZHJjbnl2LmpwZyIgYWx0PSJpbWFnZSIvPjwvcD4=

*ring ring*"Yeah, this is Joey, you know my Ratatta? Its the best Ratatta, its like in the top percentage of Ratatta, its better than all Ratatta! If you want me to stop bugging you, buy Heartgold/Soulsilver!"*click*

This call repeats every 3 minutes.

That's why I didn't add Joey to my phone list. Sure, I'll lose out on the opportunity to battle him again, but it's worth it.

*ring ring*"Yeah, this is Joey, you know my Ratatta? Its the best Ratatta, its like in the top percentage of Ratatta, its better than all Ratatta! If you want me to stop bugging you, buy Heartgold/Soulsilver!"*click*

This call repeats every 3 minutes.

*ring ring*

Yo man!Its joey!Me and my Ratatta have been training a lot!Its gotten a lot stronger, its like in the top 10 percent of Ratattas!TOP 10 PERCENT.We should battle again soon!Later!*Click*

Other than that, I'm not surprised. I mean, not only is Generation 2 one of the most loved generations, therefore ensuring that a lot of people who loved them would buy it, but it has been hyped up the ass.

*ring ring*"Yeah, this is Joey, you know my Ratatta? Its the best Ratatta, its like in the top percentage of Ratatta, its better than all Ratatta! If you want me to stop bugging you, buy Heartgold/Soulsilver!"*click*

This call repeats every 3 minutes.

Fun fact: People who've used cheat devices to hack the game have found out that Joey's Rattata has near-perfect IVs and nature.

*ring ring*"Yeah, this is Joey, you know my Ratatta? Its the best Ratatta, its like in the top percentage of Ratatta, its better than all Ratatta! If you want me to stop bugging you, buy Heartgold/Soulsilver!"*click*

This call repeats every 3 minutes.

*ring ring*

Yo man!Its joey!Me and my Ratatta have been training a lot!Its gotten a lot stronger, its like in the top 10 percent of Ratattas!TOP 10 PERCENT.We should battle again soon!Later!*Click*

*ring ring*"Yeah, this is Joey, you know my Ratatta? Its the best Ratatta, its like in the top percentage of Ratatta, its better than all Ratatta! If you want me to stop bugging you, buy Heartgold/Soulsilver!"*click*

This call repeats every 3 minutes.

Fun fact: People who've used cheat devices to hack the game have found out that Joey's Rattata has near-perfect IVs and nature.

So it is, in fact, in the top percentage of Rattata.

Really? Huh, you learn something new every day. But still, a Rattata is still a Rattata, and goes down just as easily from my Typhlosion's flamethrower.

*ring ring*"Yeah, this is Joey, you know my Ratatta? Its the best Ratatta, its like in the top percentage of Ratatta, its better than all Ratatta! If you want me to stop bugging you, buy Heartgold/Soulsilver!"*click*

This call repeats every 3 minutes.

Fun fact: People who've used cheat devices to hack the game have found out that Joey's Rattata has near-perfect IVs and nature.

I freaking hate how companies use stats from games sold with systems as "game sales" Cyan did it with Myst when it came with every copy of Windows 95 back in the day. Nintendo did it with Tetris. This isn't to say that they're not good games, but 64 million copies sold might as well match their console sales as well because they didn't sell much of Wii Sports outside of it's console bundle. And it's not a very completed game to begin with, much like Link's Crossbow training for the "Zapper" bundle. *Shakes Head* I friggin hate marketing...

I swear to God, when do these ignorant fanboys see that the only reason Nintendo exists because of their passionate rage and buying milked out IP's over and over again and keep claiming it's innovative. Seriously, they are supposed to be a threat to the global world as a rising Skynet? Get the hell out of here.

*ring ring*"Yeah, this is Joey, you know my Ratatta? Its the best Ratatta, its like in the top percentage of Ratatta, its better than all Ratatta! If you want me to stop bugging you, buy Heartgold/Soulsilver!"*click*

This call repeats every 3 minutes.

Fun fact: People who've used cheat devices to hack the game have found out that Joey's Rattata has near-perfect IVs and nature.

s_glasgow99:I freaking hate how companies use stats from games sold with systems as "game sales" Cyan did it with Myst when it came with every copy of Windows 95 back in the day. Nintendo did it with Tetris. This isn't to say that they're not good games, but 64 million copies sold might as well match their console sales as well because they didn't sell much of Wii Sports outside of it's console bundle. And it's not a very completed game to begin with, much like Link's Crossbow training for the "Zapper" bundle. *Shakes Head* I friggin hate marketing...

Not everybody who got a Game Boy got Tetris with it, I sure didn't. I had to get it separate.

At least if I'm remembering right, it was 17 years ago. Not saying I disagree with what you're saying, though I will say that Wii Sports still counts as a full game for all intents and purposes. It's just a game that happens to do something that barely anybody does anymore which is have a local multiplayer experience and thus doesn't need to be 30 hours long.

Straying Bullet:I swear to God, when do these ignorant fanboys see that the only reason Nintendo exists because of their passionate rage and buying milked out IP's over and over again and keep claiming it's innovative. Seriously, they are supposed to be a threat to the global world as a rising Skynet? Get the hell out of here.

Straying Bullet:Good? Heh, I agree, SOME are. But I still find their business practice successful but just despicable.

So then you find all gaming business practices despicable?

With "their" I meant Nintendo, I seriously have to see them dare new grounds, I mean literally new grounds. All I've seen is Mario here, Pokemanz there and the rest of the bullshit.

Seriously. What is this? And I am entitled to my opinion, I just find them stuck in their old IP's for too long.

Can you really blame them after looking at these sales?

And as a proud HG owner, I'm incredibly pleased by how god this game is. It's retreading of an old IP, but it's also just an astoundingly fun game to play.

They put out good games, that sell well, and have a wide base of appeal. What's wrong with that?

What I meant is that it's generally quite rare to see a massively successful developer focus constantly on new IPs... Yeah Nintendo hasn't put out a single new one that hasn't been related to WII MII OHO OHO crap this gen, but it's also put out Super Mario Galaxy, Super Paper Mario, and Brawl, three of my favorite games this gen.